Re: Nvidia error at boot

All I can suggest is raising a bug against udevd because the error message should say what the error was. Not just:

[ 0.861399] udevd[97]: Error running install command for nvidia

In my previous career as a MVS systems programmer I went to some effort to ensure messages put out by programs I wrote had enough information to give a reasonable chance of working out what was wrong. It saved me a lot of work in the long run.

Re: Nvidia error at boot

Just found this forum and registered to add this point of reference:I have 3, different, amd64 machines all running "ascii" and the non-free nvidia drivers. All three have different nvidia cards. All three machines generate the error described above:[time] udevd[xx]: Error running install command for nvidiaI have ascii on all three as it works great and switched 2 of them from Mint because I don't like their direction {i.e. tested mint 19], and didn't like it.Anyway all 3 machines work great, video works fine. I was searching to find out how to remove the erroneous error reported in dmesg, but it looks like we are not their yet

... ascii on all three ...... switched 2 of them from Mint because ...

I went Ubunbtu -> Mint --> CrunchBang --> PCLinuxOS, allways two at the same time and got here for the same reasons with the exception of # ! which Newborough (developer) gave up on.

So I plan to stay here for the long run.

adant wrote:

... alll 3 machines work great, video works fine.

Same here.

But there's a problem at boot time, right before the desktop comes up: on two of my three monitors I get artifacts made up of a sort checkerboard type design in black, grey and white square/rectangular portions of different sizes which last a few seconds.

Apparently no big deal but it is rather annoying.

I think it is (?) a problem with the package or the driver version used in the package because I did not get them (error in dmesg or artifacts) when I ran PCLinuxOS on this same rig. ie: exactly the same hardware but using Mate instead of Xfce.

Do you get any artifacts like the ones I am attempting to describe?Maybe it's an issue due to the three monitor setup?

adant wrote:

... how to remove the erroneous error reported in dmesg, but it looks like we are not their yet

Ideally it would be good to know the origin of the error and act upon that.

Re: Nvidia error at boot

Thank you for the kind words A.

I tried turning off power supplies and rebooting but I do not get any artifacts during X startup. From my experience this is typically displaying the video memory before it has been initialised. So I agree not a "problem" but an annoying "unfinished" feeling on boot up. Could be the 3 monitor setup and how the video memory is assigned, I really don't know.

As another reference I am using single screens, my lovely Nokia 445PRO monitor and some cheapo old ACER lcds. I am running XFCE, not impressed with v4.12 (hate the new look scroll bars) but dislike all the others more Sorry, I have more consolation than help I guess...